Category: Holidays-Celebrations

Dear Friends & Family I believe the publication of this, our fourth Christmas Letter, may qualify it for entrance into the pantheon of holiday traditions. Admittedly, this epistle is not in the same leagueContinue reading

Introduction In 2006, when I first published this entry, I was sporadically making my way through Julie’s paper and electronic files, a task I should have completed long ago but instead deferred for what IContinue reading

Dear Friends & Family Someone should write an article about our wired family (wired in the sense of communication-ready rather than in the sense of easily-triggered, although, now that I think of it,Continue reading

Dear Friends & Family Let 1994 go down in history as the year we acknowledged it — we’re a family of obsessives. Sam reads, studies, talks about the Titanic. Every conversation eventuallyContinue reading

Dear Friends & Family The whimper heard coast to coast somewhere mid summer this year was me, the last holdout of 70’s feminism, finally giving up on the belief that boys and girls, raised theContinue reading

While the original WPIX repeating-loop Yule Log featured in yesterday’s TV Video Yule Log: Hot Or Not? post is still available, a number of video competitors, parodies, and take-offs can now be found. AContinue reading

We are off to witness the marriage ceremonies of my cousin Gwen so I may be especially slow to respond to messages and posting on Cohencentric.com and AllanShowalter.com will be diminished or absent altogether forContinue reading